passports

[mum2A&L]

i need to sort my passport out for our hols this year, and assumed that i would be able to add alice to mine. does anyone know if that is still possible. Also she is in my partners name. would that effect it?

 

[h33]

Hiya

I have been told that they don't need a passprt just a birth certificate as long as the parent with them has the same surname so if your partner isn't going i assume she will need a passport

Although i am in the isle of man and was just going to the UK so it maybe different.

I don't think you can put your kids on yours now either

 

[jennywren]

you can't add her to yours mate you will have to get her own

since October 1998, it's no longer been possible to include children on an adult's passport. Passport application forms are available from your local post office and you'll need to enclose your child's birth certificate plus two passport photos (one of them signed by a professional person, such as a doctor or teacher). The birth certificate will be returned along with her passport.

They are £45 for the childs first passport.

I'm not sure these days about having to have surnames or whatever, as OH dad took his niece on holiday when she was one and she had a different surname but not sure if they had to get a letter from the mother or something?

 

[Alfiesmummy]

They have to have their own passport now and the picture cant have your hands in view anywhere and they cant be smiling thats what the lady at the post office told me i wasnt very happy its going to be a right game and a half lol

 

[nicki]

Like the others said, babies have to have their own passsports now & can't be added onto yours. As for the photo its best to get them done in a photo shop (where you would take your holiday snaps into!) as you can't show any part of your body in it, we tried first off in a booth with Jamie & it was a nightmare so ended up going to a shop. They are allowed to smile but can't wear hats etc the rules are slightly different to adults ones.

Its so daft that they can't be still on the parents passports (more money for the flipping government ) Jamie had his done when he was about 3 months old & looks completely different now!

 

[cassi]

no she does need a passport and they cant go on yours, costs 45 and you have to send the birth certificate off with it...adult pass costs 66

we took jakobs pic in a photo booth like the ones u find everywhere....we held him up but you could always just hold the car seat up...

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

i tok Braydon to a proper foto shop place as he it needs to be rite distants from camera etc

 

[mum2A&L]

grr...we are planning to go away in may,so i will try and leave it till march till i get the photo's done. how long does it tend to take for them to sort them out nowdays?

bloomng government.

cheers ladies x

 

[Emmerdale]

We've just had Olivers passport done and took it to the post office where you can pay for them to check it and send for you - we did this and got his passport back in less than 2 weeks

 

[mum2A&L]

oooo....so if i got it done a month before that should be ok....mmm.......

 

[Em78]

just wanted to say hun if you're worried about them looking different and thats why you are leaving it as long as poss - they will have that passport with the same pic till they are 10 years old - so they really arent concerned about them looking anything like the pic. daft i know - why bother with a damn pic at all? like nicki's jamies alex looks really different to his already and we had no probs on our flights.

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[cassi]

i tok Braydon to a proper foto shop place as he it needs to be rite distants from camera etc

They are the right distance in a fotobooth cause that is what they are made for. Taking small photos and passport pics so the focus is set to the distance you would be from the screen.

 

[cassi]

just wanted to say hun if you're worried about them looking different and thats why you are leaving it as long as poss - they will have that passport with the same pic till they are 10 years old - so they really arent concerned about them looking anything like the pic. daft i know - why bother with a damn pic at all? like nicki's jamies alex looks really different to his already and we had no probs on our flights.

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afaik adult passports are 10 years, child passports are 6 years. Unless the system has changed.


I wouldnt wait till march hun the beginning of the year is the busiest, we are going away in may and I got all Jakobs passport stuff ready when he was a few weeks old, im getting it countersigned and sending it tomorrow

 

[Melanie]

Thea got her UK passport at 4 weeks old because we flew back home to England for a visit when she was 6 weeks and she already looked nothing like her photo lol.
We had to get her done at the British embassy in Budapest so instead of it costing £45 it cost £96!!!

 

[Em78]

just wanted to say hun if you're worried about them looking different and thats why you are leaving it as long as poss - they will have that passport with the same pic till they are 10 years old - so they really arent concerned about them looking anything like the pic. daft i know - why bother with a damn pic at all? like nicki's jamies alex looks really different to his already and we had no probs on our flights.

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afaik adult passports are 10 years, child passports are 6 years. Unless the system has changed.


I wouldnt wait till march hun the beginning of the year is the busiest, we are going away in may and I got all Jakobs passport stuff ready when he was a few weeks old, im getting it countersigned and sending it tomorrow

you know i never really checked thats just what i had always thought just looked at al's and it lasts five years oh well my point still kinda makes sense - 5/6 year old still wont look anything like a baby

just as well you said or i might have been in trouble in five years time when i tried to take him somewhere!